How easily unscrew the rusty bolt, when the hand is only the toolbox

  • Dec 24, 2019

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 Useful tips that are useful for life.
Useful tips that are useful for life.

Many men repairing a car, or just in everyday life, faced with the "become attached" bolts and nuts. Fight with rusted fasteners sometimes have a clock, and the master of all the risks often break, but also to fill a bunch of bruises. How to avoid it and learn how to easily and simply unscrew the old bolts, see our review.

1. Patience

The secret of success - do not hurry. | Photo: popularmechanics.com.
The secret of success - do not hurry. | Photo: popularmechanics.com.

The first and most important thing to have in such a situation - it is self-control and patience. If you become attached bolt can not be, do not make super efforts to immediately move it. So you can break the head and tighten the repairs, they say, with their own hands. There are many effective tools to help loosen the problematic hardware. Read more about them - in the following paragraphs of this review.

2. Remove rust

Wire brush as carefully remove paint and rust. | Photo: popularmechanics.com.
Wire brush as carefully remove paint and rust. | Photo: popularmechanics.com.
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Bolt or nut to make it easier to unscrew, it is necessary to remove all dirt, rust and paint. It is best suited for this hard metal brush. Particular care is necessary to remove the rust from the threads.

3. tool selection

To combat the problem fixture is suitable not just a tool. | Photo: popularmechanics.com.
To combat the problem fixture is suitable not just a tool. | Photo: popularmechanics.com.

To become attached to unscrew the bolt or nut, or need a spanner head, preferably with 6 faces. Normal open-end wrench is likely to slip, slizhet faces and can lead to injury. 12- and 18-sided tool to use is undesirable, as the probability of slippage.

If the fasteners, and so lapped, is to acquire a special head, which is called "for the torn edges" or extractor.

Socket set to remove damaged nuts and bolt heads. | Photo: yaplakal.com.
Socket set to remove damaged nuts and bolt heads. | Photo: yaplakal.com.

4. sense of rotation

Normally bolts unscrewed counterclockwise. | Photo: popularmechanics.com.
Normally bolts unscrewed counterclockwise. | Photo: popularmechanics.com.

Most people are accustomed to the fact that all the screws are twisted clockwise and unscrew - against. But cars are often used to mount the opposite direction of the thread, for example, fastening left wheel studs. Those who do not know, for sure, will be a long time to "play".

5. Lubricate rusty thread

Famous agent WD-40 and its analogs. | Photo: popularmechanics.com.
Famous agent WD-40 and its analogs. | Photo: popularmechanics.com.

On the nuts and bolts, which are not easy to want the ultimate joint, you can apply one of the many lubricants. Do motorists very popular penetrating oil such as WD-40. By the way, this is a very useful drug in the solution other domestic problems.

Lubricates adhered parts. | Photo: popularmechanics.com.
Lubricates adhered parts. | Photo: popularmechanics.com.

Penetrating oil abundantly put on the mating surfaces of parts, and leave at any time. If the bolt or nut is very rusty, you can leave the "chemistry" to work all night.

You can also moisten the parts rusted kerosene solvent with plain water or a Coke. These tools also help a bit.

6. We are looking for a longer arm

The longer the key, the less effort it is necessary to make. | Photo: kakprosto.ru.
The longer the key, the less effort it is necessary to make. | Photo: kakprosto.ru.

The more the pen tool which rip become attached bolt, the greater the likelihood that he will succumb. However, if the items are held tightly, then proceed to the next step.

7. We warm up detail

The gas burner does not produce a very high temperature, and therefore would be the best choice for the beginner. | Photo: youtube.com.
The gas burner does not produce a very high temperature, and therefore would be the best choice for the beginner. | Photo: youtube.com.

If you can not unscrew the fastener head even with a long arm, the connection should warm up. Professionals for this purpose use an acetylene torch. But if it is not on hand, fit and mini gas burner, which can be bought on the market.

Gray nut on one side only. | Photo: popularmechanics.com.
Gray nut on one side only. | Photo: popularmechanics.com.

Twisting the pin of the aluminum cylinder block, warms the block itself around the thread. Thus periodically obstukivaem pin circle. And if you need to unscrew the nut, then Gray it with one hand, and also obstukivaem hammered from all sides.

8. means of last resort

Professional Impact Wrench help where other methods are useless. | Photo: club.dns-shop.ru.
Professional Impact Wrench help where other methods are useless. | Photo: club.dns-shop.ru.

Even if the heat does not help, then rusted fasteners with high probability can not be saved. Pneumatic or electric percussion instrument is very effective, but often wrenches pluck heads of "complex" bolts.

Loosening the nuts problem also often ends in their mechanical removal. For this purpose the nut is cut into pieces saw or grinder can also be Drill with a drill in several places. Sometimes only two nadpilov on opposite sides, and the nut starts to rotate. And the easiest way to quickly split the old nut - to use a special device known as gaykorezy or gaykokol.

Set of steel pullers become attached to nuts. | Photo: zubr68.ru.
Set of steel pullers become attached to nuts. | Photo: zubr68.ru.

When removing the nuts become attached listed above methods sometimes damaged thread. To its "equalize" enough to banish spoiled stud ram.

And all men need to know, what to do if you must close the ball valve jammed.

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